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Best Diaries and Autobiographies
It is every reader's wish to peek inside the author's mind. Diaries let us do that...a little bit.
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,099,685 ratings
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The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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4.28 avg rating — 25,695 ratings
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A Writer's Diary
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4.17 avg rating — 6,484 ratings
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Diaries, 1910-1923
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4.23 avg rating — 4,044 ratings
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A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness
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Tom Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976
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3.68 avg rating — 917 ratings
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3 people voted
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A Writer's Diary 1873-1881
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3.72 avg rating — 1,482 ratings
score: 293,
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Yoko's Diary
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3.94 avg rating — 357 ratings
score: 292,
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Fire: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1937
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4.12 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
score: 197,
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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3.61 avg rating — 7,378 ratings
score: 196,
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The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 30,143 ratings
score: 194,
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Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl (Belle De Jour #1)
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Belle de Jour (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 9,350 ratings
score: 192,
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Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
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4.20 avg rating — 9,923 ratings
score: 190,
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I Am Ozzy
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4.14 avg rating — 32,502 ratings
score: 185,
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2 people voted
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
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Stacy Pershall (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 3,889 ratings
score: 100,
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Journals and Letters of Mother Theodore Guerin
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4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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1 person voted
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The White Hindu
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Ambaa (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Burning Cedars
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Natasha's Story
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3.80 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Lesbian Crushes and Bulimia: A Diary on How I Acquired My Eating Disorder
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Natasha Holme (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 100,
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Beneath the Bamboo: A Vietnam War Story
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4.25 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Stories I Only Tell My Friends
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3.87 avg rating — 84,333 ratings
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Autobiografia
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4.12 avg rating — 12,358 ratings
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The Journals of Father Alexander Schmemann, 1973-1983
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4.61 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
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4.27 avg rating — 161 ratings
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#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula
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3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
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Cynthia A. Sandor (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Oorlogsdagboeken: 1914-1918. Een vrouw vertelt over haar Eerste Wereldoorlog
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4.13 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Diary of a 1908 Wagon Journey to Yellowstone: And Life in Rural Wyoming
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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My Dearest Diary: Five Years in the Life of Cathy Cornellia
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Horizon
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4.17 avg rating — 1,906 ratings
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Private Battles and The Khaki Cage
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4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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House of Incest
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3.86 avg rating — 3,612 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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A Measure of Danger
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4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 99,
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Love Life
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3.68 avg rating — 11,566 ratings
score: 99,
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Janet Frame: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
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4.21 avg rating — 2,526 ratings
score: 99,
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Civil War Diary of a Lisbon, OH Boy
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score: 99,
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I Just Kept Hoping
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3.62 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 98,
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My Home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years [combining two volumes]
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score: 98,
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 286,634 ratings
score: 98,
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The Million Dollar Mermaid
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3.87 avg rating — 1,929 ratings
score: 97,
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We of the Never-Never
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3.66 avg rating — 1,608 ratings
score: 97,
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George Orwell Diaries
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3.80 avg rating — 597 ratings
score: 97,
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If everyone cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker
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4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings
score: 96,
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Hitch 22: A Memoir
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4.02 avg rating — 22,304 ratings
score: 96,
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Long Walk to Freedom
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4.36 avg rating — 92,816 ratings
score: 95,
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White Coolies: A Graphic Record of Survival in World War Two
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4.34 avg rating — 189 ratings
score: 95,
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The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919
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4.30 avg rating — 1,752 ratings
score: 93,
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Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library
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Chris Paling (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 809 ratings
score: 93,
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The Windsor Diaries: 1940-45
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3.54 avg rating — 505 ratings
score: 92,
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The Diary of Eva Braun
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3.52 avg rating — 46 ratings
score: 91,
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Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
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4.17 avg rating — 6,656 ratings
score: 90,
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Speak, Memory
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4.08 avg rating — 17,493 ratings
score: 88,
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If you’ve acquired a taste for memoirs, then you already know how engrossing this particular format can be. The book-length first-person...
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By the way, the current #16, Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks, doesn't quite sound like a diary or an autobiography to me, as the author of the book is not Agatha Christie but John Curran.